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- adjective Having the quality of
justifying itself .
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Examples
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Following hard on the ‘perils of pop philosophy’ article, I find it ironic that this commentary veers hard into the raw self-justificatory reductio that was lambasted only yesterday.
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He speaks and writes with a moral seriousness that bears no trace of self-justificatory stridency.
'A Churchillian Defense of the Markets' Brian M. Carney 2010
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He speaks and writes with a moral seriousness that bears no trace of self-justificatory stridency.
'A Churchillian Defense of the Markets' Brian M. Carney 2010
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He speaks and writes with a moral seriousness that bears no trace of self-justificatory stridency.
'A Churchillian Defense of the Markets' Brian M. Carney 2010
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Exactly, this is all an overlong discussion of the self-justificatory strategies used by people with a vested interest in making their industry relevant and therefore profitable.
Focus Group: Undecided Voters Care Much More About Character Than Issues 2009
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Does all this self-justificatory aggressiveness, all the messenger-shooting and "whataboutery" How dare you criticise us!
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Literary criticism, being an entirely artificial discipline, thrives on its self-justificatory elitism.
Two Distinctions 2008
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Literary criticism, being an entirely artificial discipline, thrives on its self-justificatory elitism.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Any conscious reader will realize the actual object of such self-justificatory plea: we are not for violence of any type.
A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007
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The image is so familiar that we may fail to notice that it is fundamentally self-justificatory.
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